[PATCH] Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD"
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Mon Sep 18 16:44:32 AEST 2017
"Jan H. Schönherr" <jschoenh at amazon.de> writes:
> This reverts commit 36ae3c0a36b7456432fedce38ae2f7bd3e01a563.
>
> The commit broke compilation on !CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING. Also,
> there may be cases with CONFIG_HAVE_KVM_IRQ_ROUTING, where larger
> gsi values make sense.
>
> As the commit was meant as an early indicator to user space that
> something is wrong, reverting just restores the previous behavior
> where overly large values are ignored when encountered (without
> any direct feedback).
>
> Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh at amazon.de>
> ---
> virt/kvm/eventfd.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
Can someone merge this or preferably just send it straight to Linus, the
original patch has broken the powerpc build in mainline.
cheers
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